Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb base] be [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university .
2 So you go are you going now from your sixth form into the college this time ?
3 Little has been seen or heard of the V of R this year , but apparently there have been something of an upheaval in the Company at the end of the season and few people are now employed .
4 All they , all they know is it 's an house .
5 All they do is they just have stray and then they put ed E D on the end
6 Yeah you 're sort of thinking when my why got a card and then they tell you to look round , how much it 's gon na cost you and I mean , you know , jus jus just you know is everything gon na work out , you know ?
7 He made it sound like we 've been our for a , you know , a romantic candle lit dinner and , you know , and we 'd just been down to his study for God 's sake !
8 Erm , also I 've been I did phone the office up because I wanted to be report on the environment impact
9 Well I wonder Lynne if it would look odd because you know the position of the greenhouse just now I mean is it a lean-to , or is it sitting out there in the lawn , where is it ?
10 Well I 've been myself .
11 Well I 've been I really do n't know .
12 Well I 've been you know , very conscious of that .
13 W was it a decent , well I mean was it a living wage
14 Well I have been I 've been in bed half the time with
15 well she know 's I 've got b , Penny 's birthday present here
16 I was thinking when Daniel was down here that erm Paul you know and all his girlfriends , various girlfriends , for a long time now and I said something to Daniel well you know are you sort of courting yet ?
17 I mean the strain on families must be enormous in a strike situation and for both people in the family to be having an input and feeling that they 're getting some sort of feedback from the situation that it 's not just despair must surely you know be you know there 's that side to it and then erm from the women 's point of view I mean we have like I said become one big family in a way you know and the social side of the strike in a way you know people are sa you know going out more maybe and certainly
18 He organized it all and then I think was it a week before he suddenly said well we ca n't possibly have two hundred people walking along a nature trail that we want to protect .
19 Sort of there I suppose is it ?
20 We made friends then who have been our friends for life .
21 The quietness seemed somehow to be incredibly loud , perhaps because wherever else I have been I could at the very least , listening hard , pick out some distant sounds of life , or even the wind in the trees .
22 Virtually everything else they own is somebody else 's discarded rubbish , a miscellany of ramshackle furniture .
23 Actually I 've been I was sitting in the lounge today right and you know the situation there see his car going round the corner and stop and got out the car beaming at me , I said cor give him my old !
24 Actually I have been something of a clothesaholic recently , do n't tell Derek , but I have to put that fitted wardrobe under lock and key when he 's back and hope he does n't keek in through the louvres because I would n't want him to think I was extravagant .
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